Editing Peter Benenson (section)

==Early life==
Benenson was born in [[London]] to a large Jewish family,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/benenson.html |title=Peter Benenson hero file |publisher=Moreorless : Heroes and killers of the 20th century |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218073705/http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/benenson.html |archive-date=18 February 2006 }}</ref> the only son of British-born Harold Solomon and Russian-born [[Flora Solomon|Flora Benenson]]; Peter Benenson adopted his mother's maiden name later in life. His father, an army officer, died from a long-term injury when Benenson was nine, and he was privately tutored by [[W. H. Auden]] before attending [[Eton College]]. At the age of sixteen, he helped to establish a relief fund with other schoolboys for children orphaned by the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He took his mother's maiden name of Benenson acceding to his dying grandfather’s wishes, the [[Russian Empire|Russian]] financier Grigori Benenson (1860–1939).

He enrolled for study at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], but [[World War II]] interrupted his education. He served in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] at the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]], where he met his first wife, Margaret Anderson. He worked at [[Bletchley Park]] during World War II in the [[Testery]]. He is listed as RSM Benenson in Room 41 as a cryptographer.<ref>COLOSSUS B.Jack Copeland and others. Page 253. Oxford University Press. Paperback edition 2010.</ref>